February 28, 2019
Read an adapted excerpt from the introduction to “Culture is Not Always Popular: Fifteen Years of Design Observer,” featuring a conversation with designer Jarrett Fuller and editors and founders, Michael Bierut, and Jessica Helfand. They will be at The MIT Press Book Store this coming Monday, March 4th at 6:00pm to discuss their new book.
February 19, 2019
Neil Clarke will include three stories from Twelve Tomorrows in his Best Science Fiction of the Year collection: Ken Liu, “Byzantine Empathy” Elizabeth Bear, “Okay Glory” Alastair Reynolds, “Different Seas” Clarke’s collection, the fourth in the series, will appear in July 2019. Previously, Bear’s “Okay Glory” and SL Huang’s Twelve Tomorrows story “The Woman Who Destroyed Us,” were chosen by Jonathan Strahan for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 13, to be published in April 2019.
February 11, 2019
It is with deep regret that we acknowledge the passing of Theodore K. Rabb (1937–2019), who was one the founding editors of the Journal of Interdisciplinary History and edited the publication for over four decades.
February 5, 2019
Last night, the Knowledge Futures Group, along with partners at MIT Open Learning, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Microsoft, hosted an invitation-only hackathon in Boston to add metadata to a collection of art that the MET has made openly available online.
January 24, 2019
Read an excerpt from the Foreword to ‘Titans of the Climate’ by by John P. Holdren. This timely book illuminates the stakes of America and China’s climate policies: the superpower polluters must find a way to live together to avoid dying together.
January 22, 2019
James W. Cortada, author of IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon, describes six lessons for corporate longevity.
January 17, 2019
A Resolution for Connection: Adapting tech to strengthen relationships.